[ejddhbrbrrnrn]

I am on the airlines side really. They set the fare from A to B.

If you start have people skipping they can no longer offer the competitive fares. The solution could be fines for doing it as a general principle.

They also may cause delays due to final calls, security and manifest checks etc.

[kortilla]

I implore you to explain how deplaning means they can’t be competitive.

If I jump out of the airplane halfway through a flight, how does that change their pricing beyond me saving them fuel?

The only way this makes sense is a segment rebate scheme for flights to underserved communities. But I don’t think this is what’s at play here because it’s not mentioned at all.

[samaltmaan]

Half of HN works in SaaS or similar but it seems I need to explain.

Price discrimination is a selling strategy that charges customers different prices for the same product or service based on what the seller believes it can get the customer to agree to. In pure price discrimination, the seller charges each customer the maximum price they will pay. In more common forms of price discrimination, the seller segments customers into groups based on certain attributes and charges each group a different price.

Airlines famously work on razor thin margins. If they dont make their $ this way they need to charge more for the NYC full fare, and because all competitors do it it pushes those fares up. Which might be OK but what this means is skippers make it worse for people who legit follow the terms and conditions

My belief is people should honour the terms of the fare they paid for.

As for a parachute. That is silly. Of course that would add a lot of cost. A similar example is asking a bus driver to stop outside your house. Or let you jump out the open door. Lots of insurance and liability reasons not to do so.

The fact that fuel is the only aspect to a fare is obviously misinformed. It is like saying AWS only pay for data centre electricity.

[kortilla]

You’re really struggling to explain here because you know it doesn’t make sense. It has nothing to do with price discrimination because the airline collected the fare either way.

If I offered pizza and a drink for $2 or just pizza for $5 and someone buys the former and chucks the drink, that is not their problem, it’s mine for being an idiot.

I didn’t say anything about a parachute. Don’t be dense.

[Glyptodon]

Shouldn't be the opposite? If a route goes ABC, they'd have to sell AB and BC separately instead of bundled? No more "skipping" and any trip that's not direct can freely be assembled from legs on any airline?

[Ekaros]

That would save lot of money for airlines. After all if the AB and BC is properly treated as legally separate products. Then responsibility of getting to BC with AB even if the AB is delayed would be fully on customer. Too bad we were late, now pay the full fare for BC again. As you failed to show up.

[SturgeonsLaw]

I'm not sure that's the case, "offering competitive fares" implies that they are trying to charge less, however no business is going to sue for their right to charge less money. They want to charge more, and are using the legal system to help achieve that end.